COOKING CLASSES IN VENICE

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TO COOK LIKE AN ITALIAN MAMA?

NOW YOU CAN, with the help of Arianna and Monica. Take our cooking classes in Venice!

Cooking Classes in Venice. With Monica’s passion for food and her 20 years experience in teaching and Arianna’s culinary skills and Venetian food knowledge, you will learn to cook just like Venetian women do.

Cook In Venice’s cooking classes are held in Venice itself or in the town of Mira (Italy) or door-to-door to your rental apartment in Venice.

We offer cooking classes in the beautiful location of a palace or the cozy setting of an apartment Venice for all lovers of Italian food and half day cooking classes at Arianna’s home, in a real Italian home kitchen.

Cooking course with children in Venice

Perfect activities for a bridal hen party or a celebration for a birthday or an anniversary, as well as a great opportunity for team building at work! Contact us to book your gift voucher!

Arianna & Monica only use seasonal products and are proud to teach traditional Venetian cooking, a mix of recipes with influences from all over Italy and the Middle East.

Venetian recipes aren’t strictly original, since Venice has been for more than a 1000 years the centre of the world for commercial, military and religious traffic. Right from the start Venetians learnt to live with the few resources the lagoon offered (fish and vegetables) but as Venice’s population grew, its people started to turn their attention to imports and to adapt the best products into itscooking.

Cook in Venice recipes, photos by www.roccopaladino.com

So now Venice has a transformed and adapted its cooking history which is various, fantastic and with an important influence from the Mediterranean, the Middle East and even from China and the Americas. Let’s not forget the incredible use of Polenta (maize flour mixed with water and salt) and rice which all Venetian mamas prepare in their everyday cooking.

So, come and join Arianna and Monica’s cooking classes in Venice-Italy and learn to cook just like an Italian Mama.

In 2014, some of Arianna and Monica’s recipes have been featured in the culinary book Venice: Recipes Lost & Found by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi.

And in March 2016, The English Garden Magazine has published their recipe for Risotto with Bruscandoli.

The English Garden Magazine published Cook In Venice’s recipes

Monica has appeared, together with Ada Catto with whom she is co-writing an upcoming book on the famous Venetian Cicchetti, in the Channel 5 TV Show Secret Italy with the well-known TV presenter Alex Polizzi.

Secret Italy in Venice with Alex Polizzi & Cook In Venice

Jonathan Tucker and Cook In Venice Tours

And some famous people have joined Cook In Venice tours, like the Hollywood movie actor Jonathan Tucker.

Student #4: Hi, my name is Chris, I come from the UK. I work as marketing manager. I think it is a very good idea. It’s nice to have an experience in visiting Italy and also learning cooking. I’d say it is a bit unique, a bit off beat, different than normal, yeah, it’s a good idea.

Monica: We are not chefs, we are not professional chefs, but we love cooking. We really want to show people that are not great experts in cooking that you can make some easy simple nice food and you don’t have to be a chef, you don’t have to have this greatest knowledge of food. That anybody can do a recipe like GNOCCHI, anybody can go and learn how to make PASTA. It just takes a bit of passion, and it takes a bit of guidance, but at the end of the day everybody can learn to cook. We don’t pretend to be the greatest chefs, There is enough of this people in the world.

You must love food, It’s hard to cook if you do not like food. And there are many people who have not been taught how to enjoy food. I think that is the first step. To learn to enjoy food and then to enjoy how to cook. Housewives, husbands, house-husbands, women who work and come home and they think OK, I fancy to cook something Italian. What can I do very quickly with the ingredients I got at home. Not something that you have to go out and buy en purpose. Something you just open your larder and you say: OK, I got this , what can I make? And that is actually the way Venetian cooking is, it’s not about very hard to find ingredients, They are ingredients that usually everybody got at home.

About Cook In Venice

Cook in Venice's team is composed by Arianna and Monica.

Arianna is an expert cook, whose culinary skills were passed down from her great-grandmother and she comes from a long tradition of farmers, cooking for large families and large gathering.

Monica, who lived in England for 12 years, teaching Italian and English for over 20 years, is a food writer and a culinary guide, running Food tours of Venice as well as Cake & Chocolate tours.